Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
CHRISTIANITY AND RELATIONSHIPS
(Part 1)
1 Timothy 5:1-8,
5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, 5:2 older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity. 5:3 Honor widows who are real widows. 5:4 If a widow has children ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Husbands, I want to ask you some questions about your wives. What is the most difficult request your wife has ever made of you? What is your wife's most difficult expectation in your life? What is the greatest challenge your wife has ever given you?
Wives, l want to ask you ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
If I asked you to list some Christian concepts that are simple to study and easy to understand, what concepts would you list? Let me give you a list to choose from. Which of these concepts would you say were simple to study and easy to understand?
The word of God
Accepting ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
If you are observing a person's faith, how can you tell if that faith is strong? That sounds like a very simple question that should have a very simple answer. But neither the question nor the answer is simple.
We do have some ready made answers for that question. Ready made ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
When we observe faith in different people's lives, we observe a fascinating phenomena. Two Christians who have placed faith in God go through near identical types of crisis. In both, the crises produce a period of questioning, confusion, and doubt.
From this common struggle with doubt, one Christian's spirituality enters serious ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
The standard for identifying the kind of faith that God wants people to have is the faith that is seen in Abraham. Rare is the person who equals the faith that Abraham developed. No one surpasses the faith that Abraham developed.
That fact is incredible for two reasons. First, Abraham had ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I love the church. The older I become the more I love the people who have been called out of evil and called into Jesus Christ. God is constantly leading me into a greater love for His people.
I rejoice in my restoration heritage. The goal and principles of restoration have ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Focus verse: Hebrews 11:6--Without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him.
College football is big business in this country. Some of the one-game losses in the top five teams ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Having faith in God through His son Jesus Christ solves many tensions in a typical life. It solves those tensions in numerous ways. It gives a person's life both an immediate focus and an eternal focus--the whole of life is not focused on the here and the now. It gives ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Perhaps among the most difficult spiritual analysis to make is the analysis of the anatomy of faith. What is faith? Most Christians are more proficient at telling people what faith is not than they are at telling people what faith is. I often fear, with all of us, our concept ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Read with me as we listen to John 8:21-30:
8:21 Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come." 8:22 Then said the Jews, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
I want to begin by inviting you to read with me from Mark 5:25-34.
5:25 And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, 5:26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but ...
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